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" The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs. "
Bill Gates
World
First
Human
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" The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency. "
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" I think any statement about stock prices is always suspect unless it's made by Warren Buffett. "
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Statement
Made
Think
" Digital technology has several features that can make it much easier for teachers to pay special attention to all their students. "
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" To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. "
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Imagination
" When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen. "
Bill Gates
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You
Choices
" You're never going to get the amount of CO2 emitted to go down unless you deal with the one magic metric, which is CO2 per kilowatt-hour. "
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Go
Down
Magic
" I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm - not all - that religion used to fill. "
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People
Need
" Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid. "
Bill Gates
Common
Hear
Views
" Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer. "
Bill Gates
Surface
Computer
Windows
" China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them. "
Bill Gates
People
Business
Work
" In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone. "
Bill Gates
Late
Business
Yourself
" There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints. "
Bill Gates
Always
Long
Phone
" Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game. "
Bill Gates
Nationalistic
Energy
Innovation
" The microprocessor is a miracle. "
Bill Gates
Miracle
" Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time. "
Bill Gates
Time
Gift
You
" I don't like typing messages on my phone. Some people get used to it. "
Bill Gates
Phone
People
Some People
" In order for the United States to do the right things for the long term, it appears to be helpful for us to have the prospect of humiliation. Sputnik helped us fund good science - really good science: the semiconductor came out of it. "
Bill Gates
Right
Science
Good
" The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life. "
Bill Gates
Technology
Even
You
" Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources. "
Bill Gates
More
Globalization
Resources
" Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing. "
Bill Gates
Young Age
Young
World
" Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year. "
Bill Gates
Attention
People
Week
" I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested. "
Bill Gates
Nothing
Because
Company
" Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.' "
Bill Gates
Most
Power
Powerful
" I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young. "
Bill Gates
Elderly
Young
Think
" I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. "
Bill Gates
Excited
Pretty
World
" Well I think any author or musician is anxious to have legitimate sales of their products, partly so they're rewarded for their success, partly so they can go on and do new things. "
Bill Gates
New Things
Think
Sales
" I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes. "
Bill Gates
Well
Care
Clothes
" It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants. "
Bill Gates
Human
Hard
Tools
" We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy. "
Bill Gates
Digital
Transition
Strategy
" What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life. "
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School
People
Life